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TAPANUI.

(From a Correspondent. )

Our new schoolhouse is rapidly progressing, and promises to be a very handsome and -substantial building, and will reflect much credit, on Mr. Crawford, the contractor.

This week has been one of no little interest hero. We haVe had no less than three marriages — the fair brides being sisters added greatly to/the interest of the happy event.

"We have also had a strange visitation* of spiiits and, "their mediums. Whether the happy event above rerecorded had in any way influenced the spirits of Messrs. Hennessey and Martelt, your correspondent is not prepared to hazard an c pinion ; but it is a fact that spirits often perform strange freaks, and choose equally strange opportunities. That spirits are in the immediate neighbourhood of all happy events, even the most sceptical will admit. But to my report. Our spirits were more full of frolic than mischief, as report showefcb. One of our blacksmiths had his sign-board tak n down, in- spito of all the horse shoes about his premises, which I have heard old women at home say " wad fleg even the vera deil himssl 1 awa'." x\ble-bodied spirits 'they must have been, for they took a spirit dealer's dray (which no ■ doubt they looked upon as their own property) from one end of the town, to the other, and. with it so effectually blockaded the door of a dwelling house that the "gudeman " of which, happening .to come home shortly after, found himself completely cut off -from his better half. • He could not help repeating the old song to himself — ITame enm" our gudeman at c'en,

liiime cam' lie, And there he saw a hvnn new dray Whnur nac dray should be. Suspecting spirits in the neighbourhood^ he politely invocated -them in-the , words of the..Bong —

"Whanr cam' that drny frac, And whti's may it be?

It was no go, they did not dcic;n a reply ; bu,t they might have been off on a new freak, or uncorking a fresh Hennessey to the tune" ot- " We wont go home till morning; ■, " but, be that as it may, to him they were non est inventus. Another freak was tho placing of cart wheels and empty hogsheads along the main street, over which, no doubt, they had a game at leap-frog. They may be aware that we are to have races at the New Tear, aud perjiaps were kindly instructing us in the way to set hurdl s. One old woman had the outside of her house so completely altei'ed that on opening her door in the morning she exclaimed, " Save us a', if I hae na been sleeping in a neighbour's house a' nieht! That extra pint o' Black Horse Beer maun hae gaen to my noddle "" — a drink of which the old lady is vera fond. Tho sign-board- of the-Tapanui-Bush Hotel took a jump of several hur>ui\>J yards, and was fouiKl'decorathig the verandah of a gentleman's house,"who was roused up to find himself a publican by son'ie thirsty sh-earers newly arrived in town calling for ,jipb biers. On., our bootmakers the spirits had a particular " down ; " perhaps their boots might be pinching their corns or bunions, and prompted their revenge. The sign of tbo- Old Kentucky Boot Establishment was removed to ornament a house which shall* be nameless ; and another son of King Crispin had his doors secured, from the outside, his windows boarded over, and his chimney s'suffed with straw. After this the spirits appeared to take a religious fit, and whisked a buggy up a hill to the door of the building used as a church ; but about this time day was breaking, aud at the crowing of sundry roostcrj, vanished all the jolly spirits, aud shortly after the traces of their midnight gambols Bequisscat in pace. !

EoAiiNTic Matcriage qp a$ American Millionaire. — At the advanced age of 73, Cpmmodore Vanderbilt, the well-known American.millionnaire, has married a woman of 30. „ A New York correspondent gives the following romantic account of the origin* of the marriage : — Not many months ago the Commodore's son fell desperately in love with the charming daughter of one of the city officers. But for some reason or other the father wai unwilling; that the young man should wed the charming young lady, and there were sorrow' and tears and coldness as the "■ 'result. —. At length the young man sickened and died, The young lady then for the flrsfe time became known to the firm, old father. The latter, in spite of himself, was pleasejcf, then charmed, then in love as strong and deeply as a, youth _of 20. By presents at firsts then attentions, .fcften. trhe offer, qf -his? hand," hi&fteart, and- "jthe keys Y ofi M& chest," was bis lo,ve shawj}.. - Each was accepted/ and so the charming young lady became after all the wife of a Vanderbilt. As good as Vhe is- beautiful, 'the world says o£ her j and a gallant infghfc is the hale' old Commodore. , I

The Secretary of the Treasury has made hie usual monthly statement of the Public Debt of the 'United States, which shows its total- to be 2,468,500,000 dols. This shows a decrease during th.3 last month of 7,500,000 dols., and a decrease since Man-h 1 of 57,50 ),030 olok The total of bonds boun;'i! by the Treasury, and their accrued interest, amounts to 51,000,000 dols.

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Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 6

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TAPANUI. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 6

TAPANUI. Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 98, 25 December 1869, Page 6

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